Please: free the shackled tampon!

Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 by BZ

Not only should tampons be in women’s restrooms, they should be in men’s restrooms as well. Just ask all the SJWs by which this is becoming a movement. Get it? Movement? A movement in a restroom?

From Chronicle.com:

Tampons in Men’s Rooms? It’s Just a Small Part of ‘Menstrual Equity,’ Campus Activists Say

by Alex Arriaga

Over the past year, several colleges have improved access to menstrual products on their campuses, including in some men’s and gender-neutral restrooms. That last detail has prompted some conservative websites to take note.

The American Conservative mockingly headlined its report “Social Justice Washrooms,” from “tomorrow’s generation of American elites.” Commenters on Breitbart’s report on the trend called it “academic insanity,” pointing out that “men do not menstruate.”

Pointing out the obvious is insensitive and thuggish, though. Just ask any Social Justice Warrior on campus because, after all, no campus can cramp us.

But campus leaders say stocking all bathrooms with such products is a relatively easy way to make sure no one is left out. The University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and Brown University are a few other institutions that provide free menstrual products in some men’s and gender-neutral restrooms, in order to be more inclusive of transgender students.

I know. I have a great idea. Let’s all get butt-hurt and knicker-twisted over this silly Emo issue. Gallup polls, not known to inherently skew right, indicate that 3.8% of the US self-identifies as LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ. Or whatever. As opposed to the roughly 23% estimate offered by general public thought because of the wonderful marketing job done by the American Media Maggots, Hollywood and self-promoting entertainment in general.

Further, NPR.org indicates that 0.6% of Americans identify as transgender.

We as a nation are bending over and getting bent over by a minority of a minority.

So excuse me if I larf at you silly Emo bastards and bastardettes when you write a paragraph like this one.

Part of the growing “free the tampon” movement has been an effort to make college more fair for students who menstruate, a concept for which Jennifer Weiss-Wolf coined the phrase “menstrual equity.”

Right. Which is apparently why men who don’t menstruate are paying for the tampons of women who do — and paying for the birth control of women who also wish their gender-assured Free Cheese.

Are these Social Justice Warriors going to pay for the prostate exams, checkups, and vasectomies of men? Because men, after all, are stricken with prostate cancer at almost the same rate of breast cancer in women.

Of course.

I didn’t think so either.

P.S.

I have a question. If you menstruate, physically requiring a tampon — unless you don’t mind walking around in bloody shorts and pants then sitting on cloth-covered chairs in public areas — and you identify as a man that day, is it unfair to expect, because you identify as a man, that people must provide you with tampons the likes of which you deny because, after all, you mentally insist you are male?

Just asking.

Detroit, water, and the UN building

Posted on Friday, September 26, 2014 by BZ

Water is apparently a human right, according to residents in Detroit, Michigan.

Deadbeat residents in Detroit, Michigan, can’t pay their water bills. All roughly 17,000 of them. However, no one quite knows how many of those bills represent persons still living in Detroit, and those who have abandoned their homes. Because, in general, Detroit looks much like this:

That said, the city of Detroit is now doing its worst: actually turning OFF water to those who haven’t made their payments. This is, clearly, beyond evil. So sayeth those whose presence still exists.

From WSJ.com:

Detroit Residents: Restore Our Water

Detroit Homeowners Delinquent in Making Payments Testify About Hardships

by Matthew Dolan

DETROIT—In this bedeviled city struggling to convince residents to pay their bills, a slash of blue spray paint on front lawns serves as a kind of scarlet letter of debt.

“I was really embarrassed. I started to cry,” Carol Ann Bogden, a 68-year-old retired emergency-room nurse told a federal judge Monday, describing how city water department officials marked her home before shutting off service in July.

During the last two years, the city’s water and sewerage department has put its mark on tens of thousands of residences. With the help of advocacy groups, some homeowners are suing to restore service and stop future residential shut-offs for at least six months.

Your problem, madame, is that you still live in and believe in Detroit. I’d have guessed you’d understood that basic conundrum from its establishment because, as a nurse, you are clearly not stupid.

People in the rest of the United States laugh out loud at the so-called “predicament” of Detroit. They predominantly ignore you because they perceive you as too stupid to understand your plight. They readily compare Detroit to Hiroshima.

And your expectations of some kind of deus ex machina.

But wait. Aren’t those blacks? Protesting the decisions of blacks? Because blacks are mostly in charge of Detroit?

Urban experts see Detroit’s dilemma as a result of the city’s inability to cover the expense of an outsize infrastructure system built when the city’s population approached 2 million. As of 2013, the city had about 688,000 residents.

“Detroit is a bit like a teenager who has inherited an expensive sedan—the car may have been free, but he doesn’t have the income to cover the insurance or maintenance and maybe not even the gas,” Harvard University economics professor Edward Glaeser said in an email.

But here’s where it gets even better:

The utility cutoffs in Detroit amid its municipal bankruptcy have drawn international criticism, including from a United Nations group that alleged the city was violating basic human rights for water.

There you go. The United Nations now involving itself in Detroit.

Let’s go a bit deeper into the topic, shall we?

Now AlJazeera.net weighs in.

UN panel: Detroit water cutoffs violate human rights

A large-scale water shutoff is underway in Detroit, a move that advocates say is taking its toll on the poor

by Amel Ahmed

A United Nations team of experts said Wednesday that Detroit officials’ decision to shut off water service to thousands of residents who are late in paying bills is an affront to human rights.

“Disconnection of water services because of failure to pay due to lack of means constitutes a violation of the human right to water and other international human rights,” the U.N. officials said in a news release. “Because of a high poverty rate and a high unemployment rate, relatively expensive water bills in Detroit are unaffordable for a significant portion of the population.”

The U.N. assessment comes days after a coalition of welfare rights groups — including the Detroit People’s Water Board, Food and Water Watch and Canada-based Blue Planet Project — pleaded in an open letter for the world body to intervene.

A wonderful way to invite the United Nations into the once-sovereign country formerly known as the United States of America.

Here is one amazing thing: the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) actually expects to try to acquire a minimal percentage of its bills due.

How onerous to think that DWSD should have to maintain an ancient infrastructure heretofore unaddressed. How terrible to think that the DWSD should attempt even briefly to recoup costs it had to place up front. That it had to attempt to replace pipes and motors and systems once ignored? Hello, anyone? Infrastructure?

That said, however: should these bills be dismissed summarily due to the overall goodness of the UN?

But wait. It gets better.

The No. 1 scofflaw isn’t a business but the State of Michigan, which the department said owes more than $5 million. Dave Murray, deputy press secretary for Gov. Rick Snyder (who is sheparding Detroit through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history) said the bills have been disputed for the last five years over a possible broken water main near the old state fairgrounds in the city limits, which was mothballed several years ago.

And, with UN intervention, should not everything in Detroit simply “get better”?

With that, the UN is invited.

The UN weighs in, as per AlJazeera.com:

The large-scale service shutoffs risk being inequitable, according to Leilani Farha, one member of the U.N. team. “If these water disconnections disproportionately affect African-Americans they may be discriminatory, in violation of treaties the U.S. has ratified,” Farha said in the press release.

She urged the U.S. government to ensure due process guarantees in relation to water disconnections.

According to international human rights law, states are obligated to provide urgent remedial measures, including financial assistance, to ensure access to essential water and sanitation. “The households which suffered unjustified disconnections must be immediately reconnected,” the U.N. experts said.

UN intervention.

Further, in consideration of the UN, I have a suggestion.

Remove the UN from US shores.

Then, further, turn the UN buildings into either 1) expensive condos or 2) low income apartments.

My my my.

Nothing better than that.

What we already knew: dogs have more honor than Leftists

Posted on Friday, June 13, 2014 by BZ

From the (this makes me smile) UKDailyMail.com:

Clever boy! Dogs prefer to EARN treats by solving problems, rather than receiving handouts

by Jonathan O’Callaghan

Researchers in Sweden say dogs like to solve problems just like humans
They found the pets were visibly happier when they had a ‘eureka moment’
In experiments 12 beagle dogs were trained to use pieces of equipment
Half had to use the equipment to get a reward while the other half didn’t
And the scientists found those that had to earn their reward were happier

In humans the ‘eureka moment’ is a commonly known feeling that occurs when we solve a particularly troubling problem.

But new research suggests that we’re not the only animals to experience this – dogs, too, gain pleasure from solving a tricky task.

In a series of experiments, scientists found dogs were happier when they earned a reward by performing a task, rather than just being handed a treat.

Proving once again: dogs are smarter than Free Cheese Leftists. Now, to include illegal immigrants of all stripes.

People value nothing that they have not earned. And “earning” generally involves work, sacrifice, pain and hardship.

Free Cheese solves nothing.

Even dogs know that.

Police say couple uses their children to panhandle, makes $180 an hour

Posted on Saturday, January 11, 2014 by BZ

From KCRA.com (a story from my neck of the woods):

by Claire Doan

Police say two self-proclaimed professional panhandlers were raking in $180 an hour. They say they even sent thousands of dollars overseas.

Police say in just two hours a couple, Marian and Elena Hornea, made $265 just by panhandling. Money doesn’t grow on trees, but money is easy to get at this corner in Modesto, where police seized all the cash from two self-proclaimed Romanian gypsies who say begging is their job.

They have an organized log; they have times of day that work best. What works best, says the couple, is their children. They told police they use their five-year-old and seven-year-old to make money. To use a child scam is really unconscionable.

Some panhandlers say the couple are ruining it for people who really do need help.

Police found the couple with money transfer receipts of $3,700 sent to relatives in Romania, and that they have panhandled here many times. Police say it is better to give to charities than directly to those on the street.

You can rest assured that these two entrepreneurs have already signed up for every entitlement and bit of Free Cheese provided by the City of Modesto, State of Fornicalia and the federal government.

Your hard-earned tax dollars at work.

Wage Strikes Planned at Fast-Food Outlets

Posted on Monday, December 2, 2013 by BZ

From the NYTimes.com:

by Steven Greenhouse

Seeking to increase pressure on McDonald’s, Wendy’s and other fast-food restaurants, organizers of a movement demanding a $15-an-hour wage for fast-food workers say they will sponsor one-day strikes in 100 cities on Thursday and protest activities in 100 additional cities.

As the movement struggles to find pressure points in its quest for substantially higher wages for workers, organizers said strikes were planned for the first time in cities like Charleston, S.C.; Providence, R.I.; and Pittsburgh.

The protests have expanded greatly since November 2012, when 200 fast-food workers engaged in a one-day strike at more than 20 restaurants in New York City, the first such walkout in the history of the nation’s fast-food industry.

The movement, which includes the groups Fast Food Forward and Fight for 15, is part of a growing union-backed effort by low-paid workers — including many Walmart workers and workers for federal contractors — that seeks to focus attention on what the groups say are inadequate wages.

And there you have it. “Inadequate wages.”

Let me cut right to the core of the matter, for those persons who believe that working at WalMart, slinging burgers and pushing the CHEESEBURGER icon at McDonald’s deserves $15.00 an hour:

No, it doesn’t deserve that wage. You aren’t worth that much.

Because with that wage you’re now competing against persons who must have actual skills, such as entry level machinists, construction workers, electricians, plumbers, mechanics. People who must not only possess a few brain cells, but people who must possess initial and basic psychomotor abilities, spatial acuity, reasoning and problem solving expertise.

Jobs at registers for McDonald’s or Wendy’s or WalMart are called “entry level” for a reason. These positions are for people entering the job force, primarily at a young age, and are meant to teach the entry-level worker about time management, regularity, dependability, consistency, working collaboratively in a team environment and other requisite fundamental skills.

These jobs were never meant to support a family and/or to be a final resting point of employment for anyone, unless one wished to stay at that company and then climb the individual corporate ladder, using those entry-level job skills as stepping stones towards upward mobility, supervision and then management, perhaps upper management or franchise ownership.

From worker to lead worker to shift manager to assistant store manager to store manager to regional manager and so on.

Further, fast food restaurants, a WalMart, or even grocery stores, have small profit margins. Selling a burger at McDonald’s for $1.00 won’t make anyone “rich” in and of itself. There is only one way that these stores can make a profit at all. One word: volume.

A very important paragraph in the article:

Officials with the National Restaurant Association have said the one-day strikes are publicity stunts. They warn that increasing pay to $15 an hour when the federal minimum wage is $7.25 would cause restaurants to rely more on automation and hire fewer workers.

Let’s be frank: the positions at McDonald’s are entry-level jobs and require few true skills. You, working at McDonald’s, aren’t worth that much money. These people demanding more money have primarily inflated senses of themselves. Again I say: you aren’t worth that much. You are a dime a dozen and, thusly, turnover is huge in fast food restaurants.

[An aside: when was the last time you received massively cheerful, efficient, rapid, courteous service and accurate fulfillment at a fast-food restaurant?]

When people complain that many of these jobs are part-time, allow me to pull a page from the book of Captain Obvious: these jobs have historically been part-time jobs and are primarily part-time jobs now. That they exist part-time now is not news nor oppressive.

I worked in retail at a younger age. I was paid minimum wage. I also worked on commission in the camera and luggage department. If I hustled and sold more, I made more money. I was incentivized. If I was lazy, I languished. I was paid what I was worth.

How about another page ripped from the play-book of Captain Obvious?

If you don’t care for your job, or if you believe you are under-paid, then go get a different job. Go get another job.

In college, I worked at a radio station in the morning. I was up at 5 am. I attended classes during the day. I worked a retail job alternate afternoons and evenings. I also worked at that same radio station in the afternoon, Monday through Friday. I worked at another radio station some evenings and another station on weekends. My work/classes day ended at either 10 pm or 11 pm. I was then up at 5 am the next day. I was simultaneously putting myself through a non-paying law enforcement academy on specific nights and on the weekend. I worked an additional retail job during the holidays. That is how I put myself through college. And how I acquired my jobs in law enforcement.

This movement is nothing more than union-building by SEIU and others. It is representative of a nation of over-esteemed individuals whose worth in their minds is not congruent with reality.

Many people say: you should be glad people want to work. They could be staying home and making money not working.

To that I reply: yes they could. And I advocate closing off that tap as well, as a form of incentivization towards employment.

Keep on this tack, low-skilled workers, and you’ll find yourselves replaced with a piece of machinery.

Bloviating Zeppelin

Right thinking from a Left brain.

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